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Location: Altoona Iowa
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: cedar park texas
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Installed my draveshaft and linkage. It got dark on me so I cleaned up and made the fiance some dinner....
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#6228 |
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Location: Jackson, TN
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
replaced carrier bearing, u-joints, and trans fluid. Next brakes!
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#6229 |
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Oklahoma
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I replaced the front brake hoses Sunday and the rear drum cylinders on Saturday. Just a tip: LMC brake hoses are great on length but are not the correct size to fit through the cutouts on the frame brackets of a '71. It took me about an hour of grinding to get them to fit 'OK'.
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#6230 |
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Virginia
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Rebuilt my Rochester B today.
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#6231 |
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Sheffield, ALA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Last Friday I started the alternator upgrade on the 71 and finished tonite. I know it shouldn't have took so lone butI couldn't find my tester and bought a new one yesterday and just got checking everything tonite. My son and his new wife is about to drive me nuts. Not including my wife. Hair pulling time.
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#6232 |
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Drove it some yesterday since it was nice out. No oil leaks either! Yea..I hope I solved that problem.
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Location: Moscow, Russia
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#6235 |
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Location: Sheffield, ALA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I know. tell them that.haha. I've been home 4.5 years off the road and that is getting to me also.It's about vacation time for me. But their good to me also. Love the new one in the family to.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
I pulled the interior out of mine today. Getting an idea of the metal work I'm going to need to do.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Baby moons on the new wheels. Damn they were tough to install. WOW. I dont know how I am ever going to get them off.. They are on there TIGHT.
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#6238 |
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Creighton Sask. Canada
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Gives it a nice clean look, watch out for nails.
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#6239 |
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Altoona Iowa
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
bought new hidden antenna so gonna try to delete external and try amplified style inside. If it works I am going to weld in the antenna hole before painting white portion
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Location: Sheffield, ALA
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Suppose to be workin........
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Location: Shawnee, KS USA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
A couple of days ago we set up a quick electrolysis tub to remove the rust on bumper brackets and other parts.
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#6242 |
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Powhatan VA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Well first I put my new holley carb on, then I dropped my oil pan to replace my rear main, when all of a sudden when I took the pan off I discovered one of my main bearing cap bolts just hangin' out in the bottom of the pan.
So now I get to buy new ones... yay haha, my day was somewhat productive.
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Location: Atlanta, GA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Put in a pair of seatbelts... then realized I don't like wearing a seatbelt.
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RAT1968 '68 Cab/'71 Parts
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Coarsegold, CA
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Long story short; For an extra, I bought the dash set up from a seller on EBay and it came like this.....I sent him a message. But he didn't write back.
I wanted to use the nacelle. But I was going to paint it. What I really wanted, though, was the rest of the dash parts. So, I stripped the dash and put the guts in my old plastic nacelle...which I previously screwed up to get it off (see the area around the choke hole). I bought a different dash that I'm running now... But, on this one (the gloss black one with the cut up choke area), I'm going to put a 2-1/16" electric clock in the boo-boo, and then have a full extra dash ....Why? I don't know. It's a disease. Now, off to find a 2 1/16" black-faced electric clock.......... ![]()
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#6246 |
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Kalamazoo MI
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
i had a nice ride today, got to check out a hole bunch of new parts.
first stop was a car wash. tested: dash cluster with all factory gauges, i have a working speedometer, fuel gauge, temp gauge and oil pressure. no more slippery converter, 3800 stall gone, 2200 in AND a trans that shifts by it's self now. 4:88 gear ratio gone, 3:73 in. i restored a GM 14 bolt for the rear and a GM 10 bolt for the front and did a swap out. i have music, loud music! the new intake works real well, no vacuum leaks at carb, engine runs like a champ. new 36" Super Swampers and new 10" wide shinny rims, looks awesome. the brakes work well, that's a first sence i bought it!!! all new almost everything tested. i put in all new brake lines along with everything else. I can turn! steering works much better, this winter i put the steering shocks on the tie rod, put the front shocks on the front axle. the previous owner had them backwards. the front shocks are longer than the steering shocks, they bottomed out not allowing the tie rod to move all the way. it has a 8" lift kit with with all Roncho shocks and duel steering stabilizer kit. a good day, come on summer! |
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#6247 |
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Location: Vancouver, Washington
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Removed the ashtray and glovebox door to ship to New York for pinstriping and air brush artwork. Also treated the truck to a new glove box liner.
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#6248 |
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Grand Terrace, Ca.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Replaced my drop down battery box...just in time. Then went out and drove my truck and got a flat tire. Don't tire stores fix flat tires anymore? they thing they gotta' sell you a new one. $275... CRAP!
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#6249 |
Cluster King
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Location: Junction City, OR
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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Well, for the first time sense last October, it was over 60 degrees in South east Michigan today and I took full advantage of it.
Rolled the 72 out of the storage unit and worked on some wiring issues. The PO hade two headlight relays, one for low beam and one for high. I was not sure why they were there so I removed them and wired the lights back up like original an everything works fine. Do these relays make a difference? I am not sure there purpose but no they are not factory. I also got rid of the aftermarket coolant recovery jug that someone had to have. I don't have a problem with a little coolant spiting out if need be. I am wondering if I have the correct PS pump for a short style water pump or if there is any difference other than the pulleys. I am going to put the alternator back on the drivers side and put a short water pump back on like it is suppose to have. Can anyone tell from the pic if the PS pump is correct? I also cleaned up the new AM radio and admired the gate for the first time outside. Overall, it was a good day of fun working on the old 72. Off to El Paso tomorrow for the week for work. I will be scouting for parts. |
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Far as the relays go, they say it makes the lights brighter and steadier. I'll be wiring mine up with relays whenever I get close to that stage of my build.
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